A theoretical proposal published in 1998 spurred research into analogue quantum simulation, a field that has brought different physics subdisciplines, theorists and experimentalists together, creating a new community.
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Daley, A.J. Twenty-five years of analogue quantum simulation. Nat Rev Phys 5, 702–703 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42254-023-00666-0
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